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| Prominent Pakistan cleric survives life attempt |
| 2006-04-06 |
| KARACHI, April 6 (Reuters) - A prominent Pakistani Shi'ite Muslim cleric survived an assassination attempt on Thursday when his car was hit by a remote-controlled bomb in the restive southern city of Karachi, police said. They said that cleric Allama Hassan Turabi was unhurt in the attack but one of his guards and a passerby were wounded. The bomb, concealed in a cart, exploded as soon as Turabi's car crossed a bridge in the eastern district of the sprawling city, said Karachi police chief Niaz Siddiqui. "I think it was a targeted attack, and we are investigating," Siddiqui told Reuters. Sectarian violence is not uncommon in Pakistan, where more than 100 people have been killed in tit-for-tat attacks by militants from majority Sunni and minority Shi'ite Muslim sects in the past year. Most of the victims have been Shi'ite Muslims, who account for about 15 percent of a Pakistan's predominantly Sunni population of 150 million. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #2 This guy's a Shia holy man of the same name. |
| Posted by: Fred 2006-04-06 09:15 |
| #1 I still cant get to grip with these names, but I know "Hassan Turabi" - He's Sudan's representative on the "Supreme Council on Global Jihad". brrrr... SCGJ... Doesnt scan quite as well as S.P.E.C.T.R.E, but its still got "bad guys" written all over it. |
| Posted by: Admiral Allan Ackbar 2006-04-06 08:23 |